Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's original mission saw the space station led by Commander (later Captain) Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) transported from Bajor to guard the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant. Known by the Bajorans as the Celestial Temple where their gods, the Prophets, reside, the wormhole was a conduit to an unexplored region of Star Trek's galaxy. Even after the Gamma Quadrants' rulers, the Dominion, crossed into the Alpha Quadrant and declared war on the Federation, Deep Space Nine remained at its post at the gate of the wormhole.
Starbase 80 Is Star Trek: Lower Decks’ New Deep Space Nine
The Worst Starbase Now Has Starfleet's Most Important Mission
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Starbase 80 Also Has Its Own USS Defiant Like DS9
The Starship Anaximander Will Keep Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before
Hopefully, we will see what became of Starbase 80's mission some day.
It's also fitting alternate reality versions of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) are part of the Anaximander's crew (and are a couple). Although, sadly, Star Trek: Lower Decks' alternate reality Curzon Dax (Fred Tatasciore) didn't live to see the stable multiverse portal. As the USS Cerritos, with its new command structure, warps into new voyages, Star Trek: Lower Decks also ends with its own Deep Space Nine and, hopefully, we will see what became of Starbase 80's mission some day.